This Week in WordPress #163

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This Week in WordPress #163

May 18 2021 | 01:31:49

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This Week in WordPress #163

“Get Robert on Speeddial”

This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 10th May 2021

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey (@wp_paullacey), Ronald Gijsel (@just2ronald), Topher DeRosia (@topher1kenobe), and Joe Casabona (@jcasabona).

You can find the Newsletter here which has all the links mentioned in this episode:
https://news.wpbuilds.com/issues/163/

We focus on the following stories:

GiveWP Acquired by Liquid Web
https://howibuilt.it/givewp/
https://givewp.com/givewp-joins-liquidweb/
Robert Jacobi joins Cloudways as Director of WordPress
https://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-evangelist-robert-jacobi-joined-cloudways/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Og5JurfD4&t=2906s
Reflecting on the Page Builder Summit
https://pagebuildersummit.com/
WP Café #13: The future of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomposy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAfgDsqDak
Accessibility Advocates Sign Open Letter Urging People Not To Use AccesiBe and Other Overlay Products
https://wptavern.com/accessibility-advocates-sign-open-letter-urging-people-not-to-use-accesibe-and-other-overlay-products
GeneratePress Premium 2.0 Releases with first Block based Theme Builder
https://generatepress.com/premium/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM_GVt3TYrs
Gravity Forms: Introducing the New 2.5 Features: Accessibility
https://www.gravityforms.com/introducing-the-new-2-5-features-accessibility/

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